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The putman Surname

putman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Pitman ‘dweller by the pit or hollow’, formed with Middle English putte, a dialect form common in southern and southwestern England.
  2. Dutch: from put ‘pit’ or ‘well’ + man ‘man’, a topographic name for someone who lived by such a feature, or a habitational name derived from a minor place named with the term.
  3. Americanized spelling of North German Püttmann, a topographic name cognate with 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The putman name in History

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Distribution of putman Families in the US in 1920
Number of putman families
 127-252
 43-126		 1-42
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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